Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
Mik Aidt’s presentation at the Geelong Green Drinks on 24 August 2016 » Suggestion: Start the player and listen while you take your time to browse through the photos below An audio recording of a ten-minute group workshop at the end of the presentation can be found further below. In Geelong,
‘The answer, my friend, is harvesting the wind…’ On World Wind Day, 15 June 2016, our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse is Mike Lawrence, who runs as independent candidate for Parliament and who co-hosted The Sustainable Hour in its first year. We talk with the National
Ben Courtice, president of Moorabool Environment Group, is campaigning to stop a new open cut coal mine near Bacchus Marsh (00:00–29:00), while board chair and CEO of Green Music Australia, Tim Hollo, is launching a new Bring Your Own bottle campaign at music festivals (31:00–44:00). Listen to The Sustainable Hour
Tim Adams, principal of F2 Design and a member of the Geelong Sustainability committee, is our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 2 March 2016. He is full of good ideas and has got some 10-Star rated news to share with us – from the stock
On the cusp of an energy revolution: Meet Countrywide Energy’s director Geoff Drucker who is building two large solar farms in regional Victoria. He is joined by Andrew Lucas from Geelong Compost who is organising a half-day seminar in Geelong about Soil Action. We altso talk with musician Simon Kerr
Speeches held at the Act on Climate Festival opening night and film evening in Geelong in November 2015. On this page you have an opportunity to listen to thought-provoking and inspiring speeches held at two events where residents in Geelong got together to focus on how their community can act
The three headlines in the 98th Sustainable Hour on 11 November 2015: A You Yangs Protection Group is formed A new community campaign seeks to protect the You Yangs – a mountain area with forest and wildlife 20 minutes drive from Geelong – from the construction of a big sand
On 23 September 2015, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse follows the sun and the way the wind currently blows, which is in the direction of better understanding of the benefits of cycling, wind energy, new forms of energy storage, and what food can do to open up new
Sadly for Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his coal-mates have turned out to be eager to sabotage the national wind turbine industry, costing thousands of lost jobs and tonnes of carbon emissions. But the rest of Australia really should be listening to what these good folks in Ohio have
Warming up to the UN conference in Paris in December 2015, the 74th Sustainable Hour was an hour about climate change, justice and betrayal, pollution and apocolypse, onshore gas mining, the documentary films ‘Frackman’ and ‘Voices from the Gasfields’, with audio excerpts from speeches by: • Damien Marchant, Frack Free